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The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a unique federally-funded educational support and scholarship program that helps more than 2,000 students annually from migrant and seasonal farmworking backgrounds to reach and succeed in college. Participants receive financial assistance during their freshman year of college and ongoing academic support until their graduation. View the list of the 35-40 currently funded colleges/universities.

This website provides information on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Program for rural communities. The Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant program (DLT) was created to encourage, improve, and make affordable the use of telecommunications,computer networks and related technology for rural communities to improve access to educational and/or medical services.

This Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) brief summarizes findings from three IES studies measuring disadvantaged students' access to effective teaching. As noted at the IES website thebrief found, "Disadvantaged students received less-effective teaching on average. Based on data from 29 districts in grades 4-8 and two states in grades 4 and 5, disadvantaged students received less-effective teaching in a given year than other students in those grades." Additionally it noted, "Access to effective teaching varied across districts. The size of the differences in effective teaching in a given year between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students varied across the 29 districts studied."

The Intermountain Center for Education Effectiveness collaborates with local school districts, education agencies, professional organizations, and policy makers throughout the Intermountain West to enhance the delivery of quality education.

The National Center for Research on Rural Education is funded by the U.S. Department of Educationâ€™s Institute of Education Sciences. The Center is housed in the University of Nebraskaâ€™s Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools. As noted at its website, â€œThe Center is invested in identifying effective school, teacher, and family supports to help advance the learning of students in rural settings, with a particular focus on reading and science instruction.â€

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (formerly the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Services) website provides research and education information about many subjects, and staff specialists to answer your questions.